Wichita eagle., 1887-11-15

not only privilege, but sacred duty:
to cast out the devil in every shape and
form. Mortal man, says Christ, has done
it all. and there is nothing for us to do,
but trust in what he has done. That Is
even true. in one sense, for it is no more
us that worketh, but Christ, in truth,
that dwelleth in US. The immortal man
Christ Jesus says: ITO him that over
cometh. and keepeth my works to the
end to him will l give power over the
nations" It is warfare to keep Christ,
the truth, dwelling in US instead OF the
mortal mind, the devil; and we viii have
to fight the good fight of faith if we
would keep the works of life, truth and
love. and cast out sin. sickness and death.
Jesus overcoming the devil does not
relieve US OF the responsibility of doing
the same. But He came. and showed,
and demonstrated. and lived, the path
that all will have to travel sooner or
later: even to the very crucltiKion-not
that they will have to be crucified on
literal cross: but every man will have TO
cruelty the old man Adam-who Is the
devil, and put on the new man Adam.
The old man, the mind of flesh. must be
put away and the new man. the mind
of spirit, must reign in every heart. The
devil. the mind of flesh, must be ami
hilated. blOtted out. for The is a liar and
there is no truth in him, nothing IN
him. AS man dies daily" (as Paul
SAYS out of this darkness, that says he is
flesh, will he be ready to be filled with
the new mind Of the Spirit: We, az we
do the works that our Savior,
our elder brother, said we should
do9 viii have to get planted
on the Rock, and then having done
all, stand.
plant myself on this rock that never
can be shaken, that there Is only one
Creator and He made everything good,
and very good, and He is spirit-mind;
and not matter nor flesh; and man is His
own offspring-the child Of spirit and not
flesh
The mortal mind Gin other words, the
old NAM, ard all its works is Liza
dream-a nightmare, from which we all
must awaken. We are in the Land OF
the valley and shadow of DEATH, only the
shadow. 1t all seems so very real while
we are in it, but when we attain unto
the real-the resurrection-this unreal
viii have disappeared. So, when we
awake in this likeness, we shall be salts
fed" Mortality. like Jonah's gourd,
came up in night of darkness, but will
disappear with the morning light.
The scripture says: Awake and sing
We that dwell in dust" And many OF
them that sleep in the dust of the earth,
shall awake Oh! that we might awake,
we that are sleeping in the dust OF the
Iearth-matter-put on the true man or
spirit.
Awake thou that sleepest and arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give the
light" For Christ and not death is the
resurrection and the life. Are you
awake? Do you see that there is only
one God-one Father, and he never made
sin. sickness or death! And they are not
made in truth, they are only in dream,
in belief: they have no foundation or sub
stance and nothing to sustain them; they
are not built on the rock, consequently
they disappeared instantly before Jesus
and apostles; as they still do before the
truth.
We must know some time that our
Father is life. love. truth and beauty and
goodness itself, and supports nothing I'M
like Himself. So let us put off that old
man and put on the new man; put off the
flesh and put on the spirit; put off the lie,
put on the truth; put off the devil and
put on the Christ. Only as we cast away
every seeming power, and have the one
mind, be one with Christ. and acknowl-
edge no other power. no other mind. can
we give all power, honor and glory to
God.
He is spirit and not flesh, and we are
like Him for we are of Him. SO ''when
we awake we shall be satisfied" for we
shall be spiritual and not material. So
we are now in truth, but this darkness,
this belief that we are flesh binds US; but
let us cruelty. this mind of flesh; make
void-dead-the error or lie that hampers
us, and put on the mind Of spirit. and
realize, our oneness with Christ.
When we do realize that we are one with
Christ and our Father, and know that
there is no power or intelligence in
heaven or earth beside Him-then in His
name through faith in His name. can we
not cast out the lie, the belief that says,
man is sick or suffering, when there is no
power to make him SO, only the belief
that He is flesh and not spiritual? Let
us labor, strive, to come into the marvel
Gus light OF the liberty of the children of
God-the children of spirit As we ap-
proach this liberty, we begin to see our
freedom in Christ and realize that we
have power over every enemy, no matter
how formidable it may appear. For it
is God which worketh in us: both to will
and to % OF His own good pleasure. >
And there is no one to stand before Him
and say. why does Thou: for He is one
and All and we are His. A BELIEVER.